Nyake Surname
Approximately 1,708 people bear this surname
Nyake Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 1,603 | 1:12,956 | 1,762 |
| DR Congo | 21 | 1:3,518,075 | 145,665 |
| South Africa | 20 | 1:2,708,885 | 106,094 |
| Nigeria | 19 | 1:9,323,303 | 191,560 |
| Ivory Coast | 14 | 1:1,647,945 | 32,915 |
| Indonesia | 9 | 1:14,694,355 | 460,137 |
| Ghana | 4 | 1:6,755,173 | 15,406 |
| Sierra Leone | 4 | 1:1,772,408 | 958 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| Uganda | 2 | 1:19,519,640 | 189,114 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Gabon | 1 | 1:1,889,194 | 6,814 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1:29,494,225 | 409,885 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| South Sudan | 1 | 1:11,415,076 | 3,182 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
The alternate forms: Nyakè (1) are calculated separately.
Nyake (70) may also be a first name.
Nyake Demographics
Average Nyake Salary in
South Africa
R 21,540
Per year
Average Salary in
South Africa
R 237,638
Per year
Nyake Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Nyake Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Nyake is found most frequently in Cameroon. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Nyakè. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Nyake? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 235,556th most numerous last name in the world, borne by around 1 in 4,266,713 people. The surname Nyake occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Nyake live; 95 percent live in Central Africa and 94 percent live in Central Bantu Africa. It is also the 1,162,016th most commonly held given name throughout the world It is held by 70 people.
Nyake is most prevalent in Cameroon, where it is borne by 1,603 people, or 1 in 12,956. In Cameroon Nyake is mostly found in: Littoral Region, where 62 percent reside, Southwest Region, where 17 percent reside and Centre Region, where 14 percent reside. Beside Cameroon this last name exists in 18 countries. It also occurs in The DR Congo, where 1 percent reside and South Africa, where 1 percent reside.
Nyake Last Name Statistics demography
Nyake earn less than half the average income. In South Africa they earn 90.94% less than the national average, earning R 21,540 per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Nyake
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